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2005 BALKANS TOURBen Oostdam |
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The call of the muezzin woke me up around 5 am, but I stayed in bed enjoying the sounds of turtle doves, and the changing light when day broke.
By 7:30, I took a shower and did my laundry, then ventured downstairs to look for breakfast. In a large cavernous space I found 3 fellow guests
and two waiters with very little English: they brought me some bread and coffee, and I imitated a triumphant chicken cackle which they awarded with two eggs.
Around 9 am, I took to the street and visited a money changer's office to ask him to let me use his cell-phone. I called the long number which Valdete had given me yesterday,
but got a grumpy response to my hesitant French, so I hung up, thanked the man and left. Imagine my surprise when he came running after me to say that I had a phone call!
It was, indeed, Valdete, who had remembered me and insisted to come and visit me at the hotel by 11 am to go out for coffee and lunch.
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